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Duke/hero: "Stay away from me, country girl. I am the architect, not the fool. I plan and people follow. Do you understand?" He says this a few scenes before he's spying through keyholes and "wriggling his buttocks" (author's words) for the edification of a literally drooling maid and a few transfixed male servants.

The Duke: "You are exactly like a mosquito...an annoying little bug, and I wish I could bring my hands together and splat! Squish you like an insect."

Don't we all wish for that? In this story the hero (using the term loosely) is a boring boor with exactly zero interesting qualities. The "heroine" is an idiot. She gets drunk and acts like a two-year-old over dinner "grinning foolishly" (this is from her own perspective) and saying stupid things. I would have cringed in embarrassment, but I really wasn't that involved in these bad caricatures of "madcap" characters.

The writing itself is sub-par. There is way too much dialogue that's lacking in character tags or description. There is no sense of the time, not to mention the anachronistic terms like diddly-squat. Then there's the huge background information dump that the heroine "blubbers" (author's word) to the potrait of her dead mother. This goes on for pages. Then we have lines like this: "The duke turned puce in his rage." There's more puce prose like this throughout this agonizingly long book. Okay, I admit I did a lot of skipping, especially after the transvestite is cordially welcomed into the very conservative duke's household. (Not kidding.)

Among other "endearments" the duke calls the heroine a"halfwit" (meaning it). By the time I finished this book I felt he was giving her too much credit. Unless you're a fan of shows where people laugh uproariously when other people get hurt and guffaw when characters make fools of themselves with dopey grins, I'd recommend you not spend money or time on this book.


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Penelope A Madcap Regency Romance The Fairweather Sisters Book 1 edition by Anya Wylde Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews

Tries to be funny and makes it some of the time. Mostly so implausible I had to put it down. Heroine who doesn't get you on her side, character who isn't a flawed heroine, she s just an idiot. Then there's the poor writing. The author has studied the genre and you can see her aping various authors, and missing.... like the Regency youth trying to look like Corinthians and just looking absurd. Don't waste your time on this one.
Thank goodness I got this book for free. I have no idea how anyone could give this book a good review. The heroine was a complete idiot, the hero a total jack!#$, the plot non-existent. The book was in a word moronic. Don't waste your time!
I couldn't believe how bad this was. I gave up about 20% of the way through the book. When I see the word "madcap" used to describe a book, I am expecting some quirky characters and some amusing events to happen, but apparently the author thought that madcap just means throwing as much silliness at the reader as possible. I was suspicious right from the beginning when we first meet Penelope as she is introduced to the duchess. What human being with even an iota of intelligence comes in out the rain soaking wet and refuses the completely sensible suggestion that she change her clothes and instead sits down in the drawing room to leave puddles on the floor and watermarks on the furniture? If that was not bad enough, she is trailing a pet GOAT! Who brings an animal of any kind uninvited to another person's home? She suffers from verbal diarrhea to a pathetic extent such that by the time the duke declares that she should be sent away I could only heartily concur. I gave up completely on this book when the goat suddenly learns how to open doors and runs around the house in the middle of the night and magically figures out which room is the duke's. Once again opening a door, it then proceeds to start eating the duke's underclothing. Gads!

I don't need everything about a book to be entirely sensible and I do enjoy a good screwball comedy, but I don't have any patience for complete imbecility. And Penelope was such an imbecile that I could not be bothered to care about what happened to her. I have no idea how so many people were so enthusiastic about this book.
Why, why, why do some johnny-come-lately authors call their books Regencies and then botch the period details? Here are a few of the fails that drove me nuts before I gave up half way through

- Diddly squat (late 20th century)
- "Don't get your wings in a twist" (said by the main character to her dead mother; so-clever twist on knickers-in-a-twist, knickers early 20th century, phrase used US 1964, UK 1970s)
- Barking iron, (inappropriately available in parlor) hunting rifle (barking iron was slang for pistol, not rifle)
- Dressmaker, dressed as female, actually a male lord whose "bonnet jiggles for a man" (hanging offense!, but I didn't stick with it long enough to see how that plays out)
- Colorful dresses, e.g., emerald green, coquelicot, for main character (debs were limited to white and light pastels)
- Mutton, referencing goat (only in Asia and the Caribbean, not UK; and bringing a pet goat to a duke's residence is so far over the top I just cringed)
- Bloomers (frequently repeated; bloomers were invented in 1849, did author miscall "drawers"?)
- Canoodling (mid 19th century term)
- Cute button nose (cute in Regency was short for acute, meaning shrewd; first literary reference to button nose appears to be Tono Bungay, 1909)
- Pantheon, a carriage (phaeton, surely; doesn't seem suitable anyway for the proposed shopping trip by three people plus packages and probably a maid or footman)

If I could pick up all these misnomers while reading, why couldn't the author find them while writing? Not to mention the overly cutesy story—mutton dressed as lamb, you might say (1811 or earlier, definitely Regency).
Duke/hero "Stay away from me, country girl. I am the architect, not the fool. I plan and people follow. Do you understand?" He says this a few scenes before he's spying through keyholes and "wriggling his buttocks" (author's words) for the edification of a literally drooling maid and a few transfixed male servants.

The Duke "You are exactly like a mosquito...an annoying little bug, and I wish I could bring my hands together and splat! Squish you like an insect."

Don't we all wish for that? In this story the hero (using the term loosely) is a boring boor with exactly zero interesting qualities. The "heroine" is an idiot. She gets drunk and acts like a two-year-old over dinner "grinning foolishly" (this is from her own perspective) and saying stupid things. I would have cringed in embarrassment, but I really wasn't that involved in these bad caricatures of "madcap" characters.

The writing itself is sub-par. There is way too much dialogue that's lacking in character tags or description. There is no sense of the time, not to mention the anachronistic terms like diddly-squat. Then there's the huge background information dump that the heroine "blubbers" (author's word) to the potrait of her dead mother. This goes on for pages. Then we have lines like this "The duke turned puce in his rage." There's more puce prose like this throughout this agonizingly long book. Okay, I admit I did a lot of skipping, especially after the transvestite is cordially welcomed into the very conservative duke's household. (Not kidding.)

Among other "endearments" the duke calls the heroine a"halfwit" (meaning it). By the time I finished this book I felt he was giving her too much credit. Unless you're a fan of shows where people laugh uproariously when other people get hurt and guffaw when characters make fools of themselves with dopey grins, I'd recommend you not spend money or time on this book.